“I understood a pretrial agreement that its either guilty of 2nd degree murder or nothing”
I hope that’s accurate. I’m not trying to post bogus info. I think I got my info from the NY Times, pretrial story.
My memory wasn’t good enough to remember if this issue had already been covered before the trial started, by the attorneys.
GZ is claiming self defense and that trumps manslaughter. Double jeopardy since self defense applies to both MS and M2. So it is murder 2 or nothing.